Holder for cloth remnants.



J. D. F. ZUMVORDE.

HOLDER FOR CLOTH REMNANTS. APPLICATION FILED SEPT-28, 1914.

l 1 87,594; Patented June 20, 1916;

JOHN D. F. ZUMVORDE, OF NEW RICHMOND, OHIO. v

. HOLDER FOR CLOTH REMNANTS.

Specification of Letters Patent. 7 Patented June 20, 1916,

Application filed September 28. 1914. Serial No. 863,797.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN D. F. ZUMvoRDE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New Richmond, in the county of Clermont and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Holder for Cloth Remnants, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

In the sale of remnants of cloth, there are several difliculties to deal with. In the first place, the bolts of cloth not being full, are not stiff, and cannot be handled with any case. In the next place, there is no place on the bolt to list its length and price unless they are pasted on the cloth itself. Also as parts are sold off of the cloth, new records have to be made of the amount contained in the bolt, and generally speaking, it is not feasible in a retail store to paste or pin onto cloth remnants any tags which will withstand the rough handling on a remnant table during sales and the like. Finally the piling up of loose pieces of cloth is likely to result in an inextricable tangle which seriously deters a fast disposal of stock.

It is the object of my invention to provide a remnant holder, having a stiffened core for the cloth, a retaining member to hold the cloth against slipping and to structurally arrange the holder so that a place for recording desired data is provided. This I accomplish by that certain construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter specifically pointed out and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the holder without cloth. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the holder with cloth thereon. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the recording strip removed from its place on the end of the holder. Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the holder Without cloth mounting.

The holders are preferably made in tubular form and of cardboard, so as to provide a stiff, cylindrical core 1, for the cloth. The length of the tubes or cores 1 is to be varied according to the width of cloth desired to be sold thereon. Thus tubes for one yard and two yards of cloth are provided, being slightly over the lengths of one and two yards.

The tubes are provided with holding strips 2, preferably glued to the tubes.

These strips are long enough to wrap say twice around the tube, and of suflicient 'width'to engage enough cloth surface, to

frictionally retain the cloth against slippage on the tube.

In mounting the cloth remnant 4 on a tube, the edge of the cloth is placed along the tube underneath the secured edge 3 of the holding strip, and the remnant rolled up on the tube together with the holding strip so as to be tight thereon. It is preferred to supply rubber bands 5, 5, to hold the remnant in place on the tube, and it will be understood that the mounted remnant can then be handled, placed out in a pile with other mounted remnants, without trouble and without chance of becoming mixed up with other pieces.

In providing the lengths of tubes for different lengths of cloth, it is, as has been stated, desired to have them slightly longer than necessary to form a complete core for the cloth roll. This extra length is provided to leave one end, preferably the right end, free for purposes of mounting the recording strip thereon. This strip 6 is marked off in some desired way, preferably in sections, of say one inch in length, having headings of yards and price, and is glued around the end of the tube. When the cloth is rolled on the holding core, the end with the strip 6 thereon is to be left free and notations made of the number of yards and the price. If the part only of the remnant is sold, then there will be necessary a new notation, which can be made, if desired, on a new section of the strip. The same would of course be true of change of price.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the character described, a core member for a piece of cloth, said core being made longer than the width of the piece of cloth to be mounted thereon, and a printed record arranged peripherally around the core at one end thereof, as and for the purpose described.

2. In a device of the character described, a core member for a piece of cloth, said core being made longer than the width of the piece of cloth to be mounted thereon, and a printed record strip mounted peripherally around the core at one end thereof, as and for the purpose described.

3. In a device of the character described, a core member for a piece of cloth, said core being made longer than the width of the piece of clothto be mounted thereon, a aroilnd oo re a t ohe thereof, and strip on the core member to be Wrapped for the purpose described.

with the cloth to retain the Same said strip being located off thecenter of the core soas ZUMVORDE' to facilitate mounting the cloth in such a l/Vitnessesz Wayas toleave one end of the core exposed, I EARL W. GRIFFIN,

and a printed record arranged peripherally KATHERINE SMITH.

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